0. partykit: Recursive Partytioning Toolkit- Infrastructure for representing, summarizing, and visualizing tree-structured models. It can be used for constructing or reading tree models from different sources (rpart, RWeka, PMML), sharing
functionality for print/plot/predict methods.

1. Optimist- This project will comprise different approaches in global and discrete optimization, e.g. a simple evolutionary algorithm for global problems, some 'knapsack' procedures and discrete optimization routines, and a collection of optimization test routines.

9. paleoPhylo- 'paleoPhylo' will contain tools to assess how speciation, extinction &amp; character change contribute to biodiversity. Currently it features graphical tools to draw phylogenies with time axes and ancestors that persist after speciation.

10. Species Distribution Modelling- sdm is an extendable framework to develop species distributions models using individual and community-based approaches, generate ensembles of models, evaluate the models, and predict species potential distributions in space and time.